I recently saw an article in a past issue of Rolling Stone stated that Rudy Giuliani could be worse than Bush. This article didn't surprise me, because Rolling Stone is a very liberal publication. However, the article that did surprise me was on Google News today. It said that Giuliani is losing popularity among his party because of his social stance (he is pro-choice).
Basically he is just too conservative for the liberals and too liberal for the conservatives.
I personally did not know that Giuliani was pro-choice and when I went to investigate this I found out that he technically is NOT pro-choice. He has taken the stance that abortions should only be performed if the mother's health is at risk. This is really not the type of pro-choice stance that liberals are talking about and it seemed like a pretty conservative value to me. Then I remembered the past post I did on the polls of Americans and who they were likely to vote for. Many mentioned that Giuliani has multiple past wives. Are his lifestyle choices the "social stance" the Google news article were really talking about?
I think that when it comes to politicians, people should look at how they perform in their career, not what happens in their private life. But, I feel like this could never actually happen. Just like the tabloids cannot ignore the lives of famous actors and singers. Where should the line be drawn to distinguish private life from business?
2 comments:
I completely agree. I think Giuliani is too conservative to be a democrat but too liberal to be a republican. I'm not sure if he's just trying to reach a larger audience and get more votes, but all of his stances seem to lay somewhere in the middle so as not to ruffle any feathers. I also liked your comment on how reporters will never truly seperate the business and personal lives of the candidates. The candidates basically have to have a perfect track record in order to gain any flawless reputation in America. It's too bad.
I like how you put it. The conservatives don't like him because he is a "rebel" and the liberals don't like him because, well, he's Giuliani. He backed Bush in many ways and still only talks about 9/11. Oh yeah and lots of people hate him.
The problem here is that even though the media may report on his stances and his problems, most voters have no idea what his stances and political positions really are. Nor will they ever know because that's not what they will base their votes off of. It's the image that gets them. Aka- Obama is young and awesome ad Hillary.... is a chick.
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